Trucks carrying aid from the World Food Programme drive through Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that air force fighter jets carried out air strikes in Gaza’s Rafah area to remove a threat after “terrorists” opened fire on troops.

It said the militants’ actions blatantly “violated” the ceasefire agreement, adding that the military would respond firmly.

Israel’s attacks on Sunday were the most serious test of an already fragile ceasefire, which took effect on October 11.

Palestinians in Gaza told Reuters they heard explosions and gunfire in Rafah in the south of the strip and witnesses separately reported heavy gunfire from Israeli tanks in the eastern town of Abassan near Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza.

Witnesses in Khan Younis

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